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Pixen

By Matt Rajca

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Description

Pixen is a pixel art editor designed for working with low-resolution raster art, such as those 8-bit sprites found in old-school video games. With innovative features like a unique color palette system, patterns, layers, and high-zoom support, Pixen packs all the tools pixel artists need in an intuitive, Mac-native interface. Pixen also makes creating frame-by-frame animations fun and easy.

Animations – Create and arrange image frames in the filmstrip view to piece together animations; export animations as animated GIFs or even spritesheets!

What's New in Version 3.8

- Tile Mode is back! -- Click the Gear icon in the Preview panel to enable Tile Mode -- Use the panel's Zoom button to size the panel to wrap the preview- Added an option in Grid Settings for displaying an isometric grid- The Pixen Color Picker now includes an 8-bit color palette- The new Animation Settings sheet (found under the Animation menu) can be used to set whether animated GIFs should loop- Refreshed the Export Sprite Sheet window's UI- Updated the Discover Pixen tutorial- Improved the color accuracy of exported animated GIFs- Animated GIFs with frames of different sizes can now be exported- The last-used tool is now selected on launch- The keyboard shortcuts for the Invert Selection, Resize Canvas, Scale Image, Zoom to Fit, Zoom to 100%, Delete Layer, Merge Down menu items have changed to better match other editors- Fixed a rare crash that would occur in the Export Sprite Sheet window- Up-scaled animation frames are no longer anti-aliased in the film strip- Improved the accuracy of the Frequent Colors palette- Importing backgrounds is now more reliable- Minor UI and stability improvements